Purchases, recognitions and presentations were the main actions in a stuffed school board agenda Thursday night.

However, opening up the May school board meeting was the official swearing in of Ron Warren, who two weeks ago won the District 5 election.

Warren maintained the seat after carrying 83.6 percent of the vote over Mark H. Mahagan.

After taking the oath to the seat, the state requires the board to elect new board officials.

The trustees' vote to appoint a board president ended in a 3-to-3 tie between current president Brandon Brownlee and Adam Soto.

Board member Robert Rivera nominated Brownlee while Soto was nominated by Sylvia De La Garza. Bryan Wood, Brownlee and Rivera voted for the current president, while De La Garza, Warren and Soto voted for the change.

The absence of board member Veronica Salazar-Isaguirre left the stalemate. The school board will have to hold the election again in June to break the tie.

There was also a tie for the board secretary position as Soto nominated De La Garza and Wood nominated Rivera. Wood, Rivera and Brownlee's votes were in favor of Rivera while De La Garza, Warren and Soto voted for De La Garza.

The secretary tie also will be voted on in June.

Winning the vice president spot unanimously was Wood.

After the election, the board recognized Mary Elizabeth Dickerson, the 2015 Region 17 Assistant Principal of the Year, as well as the 2015 Teachers of the Year from each PISD campus. Profiles on each teacher will be featured in Sunday's edition of the Herald.

Business highlights included the unanimous approval of an increase in paid lunch prices for the 2015-2016 school year.

The vote to raise the price by 10 cents would comply with the Texas Department of Agriculture mandate regarding the equality in school lunch prices. The increase will apply to paid school lunches and combines the adult staff, adult visitor and child visitor prices into one category.

Currently, the price is set at $1.60 per student meal. Staff and visitors will now pay $2.60 a meal. The total number of lunch paid meals from April 2014 to April 2015 was 62,527.

Also, with a unanimous vote, the board authorized Alpha Facilities Solutions to perform a facility condition assessment for Plainview ISD. The assessment will evaluate every facility under the ownership of PISD and report its condition as well as its potential for future use.

The last time PISD conducted a facility assessment was in 2004. The fee for the assessment will total $141,529. Alpha will also perform a technology readiness assessment for $6,456.

Half of the cost for the assessment was budgeted in 2014. However, additional funding will be needed. The board voted to use, but not exceed, $75,000, from the fund balance. The assessment includes all district-owned facilities and properties.

The board also unanimously voted to purchase more reading materials for libraries at PISD's six elementary campuses.

Last year, the board approved $120,000 to purchase new libraries of books for elementary schools under their Balanced Literacy initiative. Now, the board will grow the libraries by purchasing more reading materials.

"Our leveled reader libraries that were created last year need additional expository books in order to expose student to a wider selection of expository material on their reading level," said PISD Executive Director of Curriculum and Instructional Services Sharon Wright.

The board will purchase leveled readers with a budget not to exceed $60,000. Each campus will get $10,000 worth of readers.

Other purchases and action Thursday night included;

--The board's final selections for instructional materials recommended by the Textbook Selection Committee.

--The unanimous approval of PISD's goals and performance objectives for 2015-2016, which will basically see no change from last year.

--The approval to authorize Brent Richburg, Greg Brown and Rick Garcia, to act as superintendent designee for approving staff requests for access to one or more TEA web applications accessed through the Texas Education Agency Secure Environment.

--The approval to renew the student transportation contract for the 2015-2016 school year with First Student Transportation Services.

Reports at Thursday's meeting included the Community and Student Engagement Committee Rating presented by Accountability and Assessment Director Patti Hutto. In the report, there was almost no change as each campus received Acceptable ratings in community-created performance measures.

Wright also presented the annual report from the School Health Advisory Committee. No recommendations where made concerning health education curriculum, nor were there suggested modifications. SHAC will continue to use the same abstinence program as this last year and will focus on increasing physical activity.